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Posted on June 8, 2021June 17, 2021

Talk World Radio: Alexandra Klein on Ending the Death Penalty

Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is read more

Posted on January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

Talk Nation Radio: Pat Rosenstiel on National Popular Vote

This week on Talk Nation Radio, the National Popular Vote and the Electoral College. Our guest is Pat Rosenstiel with NationalPopularVote.com, which advocates for “The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.”

Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
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Posted on January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

Talk Nation Radio: Salam Sarhan: Banning the Malevolent Political Use of Religion

Salam Sarhan is Founder & Secretary-General of BPUR international ( https://bpur.org ). BPUR stands for Ban the Political Use of Religion. Salam Sarhan is a well published writer and journalist with three books and over one thousand read more

Posted on October 5, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: Adbul El-Sayed on Healing U.S. Politics

This week on Talk Nation Radio: What sort of illness does U.S. politics have, and how can we heal it? Our guest is Abdulrachman El-Sayed, who is a physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, progressive activist, and author of HEALING POLITICS: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political read more

Posted on September 8, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: Brian Cannon on Undoing Gerrymandering in Virginia and the U.S.

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Undoing Gerrymandering. Our guest is Brian Cannon, executive director of FairMapsVA — that’s VA for Virginia — the website is http://fairmapsva.org

The organization is working on the Vote Yes campaign for a redistricting reform amendment.  Before leaving to read more

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: All Questions Answered

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Where’s our money? Why so many wars? A bill to put the Pentagon on the flag? Is everything we’ve been told a lie? Are there some things that are not Putin’s fault? And how do you talk to people who won’t wear masks?

Total run time: 29:00
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Posted on June 30, 2020June 30, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: Nina Turner Says Wrap Your Mind Around How Much Is Spent on Military Industrial Complex

Nina Turner is the former national co-chair of the Bernie 2020 campaign. She is a former Ohio state senator, and a former professor of African American history. Nina Turner is currently a Strategic Delegate Advisor for RootsAction.org. And she hosts a podcast called “Hello Somebody.”

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Posted on April 6, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: David Dayen on Systems Failing in a Time of Coronavirus

David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect magazine. He is the author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. His next book, Monopolized: Life in the Age of read more

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: Branko Marcetic on Joe Biden and Other Disasters

This week on Talk Nation Radio, we’re talking about Joe Biden, whether he can be found, and why anyone would want to find him anyway. Our guest is Branko Marcetic, author of Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, and of numerous articles for Jacobin at JacobinMag.com.

Total run time: 29:00
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Posted on March 17, 2020March 17, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: Dean Baker on Coronavirus and Corporate Greed

This Week on Talk Nation Radio, we discuss Coronavirus, corporate greed, and other topics with Dean Baker. Dean Baker is Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, which he co-founded in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social read more

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